tillage farmer to use such implements, and it amply pays 

 the small farmer to use them if he only pays for the 

 use of them a cost proportionate to the extent he culti- 

 vates. That use by the poorest farmers is made possible 

 and profitable by means of co-operative societies. 

 Societies of small farmers have been able without feeling 

 .the cost to erect and equip with expensive machinery 

 creameries to the number of many hundreds. Can any 

 small farmer who is a member of a creamery say he 

 has really felt his share of the burden of putting it up? 

 The banks have aided you by cheap credit in erecting 

 your creameries, and you have paid off, or are paying 

 off, the loans from the banks and are richer all the time 

 by the increased value of your milk. You can just as 

 easily procure through co-operation all the implements 

 and machinery I have mentioned, hold, it in common 

 and let it to the members for fractional sums, and you 

 will find in every case that the use of the machines will 

 enable you to do much more work at less expense than 

 when you were employing antiquated implements and 

 hand labour. As the manual labourer leaves the land, 

 the machine comes in to supply the power, and it will 

 enable you to pay the labourers who remain a better 

 wage and yet produce more and more profitably from 

 your land. 



All this has been proved by farmers in many parts of 

 Ireland who have adopted the new methods. It is for 

 you at least to inquire into these methods. It is, 1 

 think I have shown, your obvious human 

 duty in a great human crisis to play your part in it as 

 men, doing your work, the honourable toil demanded 

 from you, as soldiers and sailors do their less happy 

 but no more necessary duty in the trenches or on the 

 perilous sea, where sudden death lurks below the shin- 

 ing waters. You have nat any more than those who 

 bear the Red Cross to ask yourselves the rights or the 

 wrongs of the war. It is your duty as it is theirs to 

 relieve human suffering or want no matter by what race 



